In the question given below, you are given a figure (X) followed by four…

In an 'embedded figure' question, figure (X) counts as embedded in an alternative only when every one of X's lines - same shape, same size, same arrangement - reappears unaltered as a sub-drawing inside that alternative. The alternative is usually dressed up with extra strokes drawn around this core block; those extra strokes have to be set aside mentally while checking whether the core block itself matches figure (X) line for line.

Figure (X) is a zig-zag fence line running left to right, and - right at the fence's middle peak - a plain triangle sitting directly on top of a trapezium, with the triangle's own slanted sides continuing the fence's rise and fall rather than being drawn separately.

• The figure built from three overlapping trapeziums enclosing a small hexagon has no plain triangle resting on a trapezium anywhere inside it - a busier, differently-proportioned construction than figure (X).

• The figure formed by a bracket sitting over a wide V has its central triangle crossed by two extra diagonal lines, so the plain, uncrossed triangle-on-trapezium block from figure (X) is not reproduced.

• The goblet-shaped figure builds its cup from two overlapping triangles forming a diamond on a stem and base - a different construction from the single triangle sitting on a trapezium in figure (X).

• The figure of a person keeps the fence line running into the shoulders, and right at the neckline a plain triangle sits directly on the striped bodice beneath it - the exact fence-and-triangle-on-trapezium block from figure (X), unchanged; the head, the lower stripes, and the legs are extra lines added around this block.

Tracing figure (X)'s fence-and-triangle-on-trapezium block directly onto the figure of the person lines it up exactly, with nothing left over and nothing missing, confirming the embedding; none of the other three alternatives preserve that block unaltered.